Cong ready to oust BJP from power: Hooda

Ravinder Saini
Tribune News Service
Mahendragarh, September 21

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Congress Legislative Party leader and Congress Election Coordination Committee chief, said today that the party was ready to oust the BJP from power in the state, as it has utterly failed to keep its poll promises.

The former Chief Minister announced that the Congress, if voted to power, would waive farm loans, as it had done in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and raise the old-age pension to Rs 5,000 per month. These announcements would be included in the Congress manifesto, he added.

Hooda was addressing a workers’ meeting organised by former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Rao Daan Singh at the Adrash Ramleela ground here. He was accompanied by Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) president Kumar Selja.

He said that the Congress had always fulfilled its poll promises and it could be verified by going through the party manifesto released in 2005 and 2009. “The BJP had made 154 promises during the 2014 Assembly elections but it did not fulfil even one of them during the past five years, causing acute resentment among people who are eagerly waiting to show it the door,” said Hooda.

Selja said, “You cannot form the government by campaigning in cars and mere raising of slogans will not work in the elections. You will have to go to the house of every voter. Every door will have to be knocked at and people will have to be apprised of the misdeeds of the BJP government”.

She exhorted the party workers to work hard to muster the support and votes of people. She said that the party would give priority to the youth and women in the allocation of ticket. “There are no differences among Congress leaders. They are united and will contest the elections with full strength,” Selja added.

Former MP Shruti Choudhry, former ministers Rao Narendra and Satpal Sangwan, former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Anita Yadav and former MLAs Rao Bahadur and Ranbir Mahendra also attended the meeting.